Given an absolute or relative path (in a Unix-like system), I would like to determine the full path of the target after resolving any intermediate symlinks. Bonus points for...
  • May 23, 2022
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I’m trying to check if a symlink exists in bash. Here’s what I’ve tried. mda=/usr/mda if [ ! -L $mda ]; then echo "=> File doesn't exist" fi mda="/usr/mda"...
  • May 22, 2022
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Is my best be going to be a shell script which replaces symlinks with copies, or is there another way of telling Git to follow symlinks? PS: I know...
  • May 22, 2022
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Our developers use a mix of Windows and Unix-based OSes. Therefore, symbolic links created on Unix machines become a problem for Windows developers. In Windows (MSysGit), the symbolic link...
  • May 17, 2022
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I have a symlink to an important directory. I want to get rid of that symlink, while keeping the directory behind it. I tried rm and get back rm:...
  • April 14, 2022
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If I have a file or directory that is a symbolic link and I commit it to a Git repository, what happens to it? I would assume that it...
  • April 10, 2022
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